blam1 wrote:
I purchased a CLD-07G from Japan. I've received lots of players from Japan and South Korea, so I wasn't particularly concerned.
However, when I received the player - and I have no idea how this could have occurred - the tray had been shattered.
Not just broken in one or two pieces, but literally shattered.
Honestly, I will admit I think it was damaged before it was shipped and the seller screwed me over.
I replaced the tray with one from a CLD-D704 I had junked and the player worked perfectly. Just this smashed tray. Very strange.
perhaps the tray on this example was cast from a bad batch of plastic that went exceptionally brittle with age,
and some rough handling, and/or constant heavy vibration during transcontinental shipping (by Air, i presume)
simply shattered the entire assembly into pieces?
this was the typical Champagne Gold/Silver Japanese market unit, correct?
sometimes plastics in those sorts of shades end up being more fragile with mounting age
than the black and/or darker muted shades used more commonly for the U.S. and often, WORLD market.
that possibility, coupled with the fact that the plastics in general being used in CE products
were getting flimsier practically by the year throughout the 90's and onward, and, perhaps, the fact
that Japan experiences such hot summers and cold winters,
with a general population that has never known such wild fantasy as central heating or cooling within their own homes.
all that, together with the probability of flimsy and poorly aging plastic on your particular player's tray moulding,
is likely the culprit behind such an otherwise strange and catastrophic failure on an integral player component...